Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Does she talk already?

Eveline is my two years old daughter. Her whole name is Eveline Ashley Mary-France Hemmerle. She was born on Sept.15,2005 ,Wayne,Michigan. It is funny that she has that much long and strange name . Tell you what, because she is ACFG! Eveline is a French name for Evelyn here in US, Ashely is a popular name is USA, which I like best, and Mary-France, of course is a popular French name for girls long time ago, and finally, Hemmerle is our family name (or I should say my hubby’s family name). Strange enough? Yes, actually Hemmerle is a Germany family name, it means “little hammer”. My husband was born in Strasberg, France, which belongs to Alsace .And before 1st world war, Alsace belonged to Germany. For me, Alsace is like somewhat mixed France and Germany. People there speak Alsace language which is more like German, and of course French ,and most of them also speak German. My hubby’s mom is a German, so, my hubby is a half German, half French. And, about me, I am a Chinese. So, Eveline is ACFG(America in nationality, Chinese, French and German in blood).
Ok, here comes the language problem. My hubby speaks French, German and English, and he wants to speak French to Evleine and lets her learn French, I talk English with my husbby in the house, and of course I speak Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), and I insist that Eveline also should learn to speak Chinese as well as English and French. Here is how my family speaking:
Me: To my hubby: English
To Eveline: Chinese
My hubby: To me: English
To Eveline: French
And, look at poor 2 year old Eveline: to Dady?????
To me????
You will ask me, does she talk now? I just can answer you that I UNDERSTAND her, and she understand her Dad and me , and until now, she has never been in daycare one day, BUT SHE TALKS ENGLISH!

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